(January 25, 2016 at 6:06 pm)phil-lndn Wrote: oh, come on! the list given isn't an exclusive list?
as a liberal living in a 1st world country, i would argue that execution is always a poor response to crime, from a bunch of rational and ethical reasons.
however.
if you were on an island alone with 3 other people with a finite food supply, and one of those people killed the other for his food, would you not kill him as a response to the "crime"?
because you already have information to know in this situation:
it's him or you.
judgement is always context dependant. doesn't matter how evolved or how barbaric you are.
Nice non-sequitor - on an island alone with two others, there is no government, no police force, corrections officers, nor prison to contain such a threat, therefore killing to defend yourself is the only option. The discussion at hand involves no such scenario.
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